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Power and efficiency of the TDT and case-control design for association scans.
Behavior genetics - 1 Mar 2002
McGinnis Ralph, Shifman Sagiv, Darvasi Ariel
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Sample size required for the TDT and the case-control designs was studied for marker-based genome-wide scans for disease association. The influence of various parameters on sample size required to attain a given level of power was analyzed in detail. Small genotypic relative risks, low levels of linkage disequilibrium, and departure from equal frequencies for the disease allele and associated marker allele,...
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